Multi-use garbage truck

US11479406B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Heil Co. · US

Inventors

• Shane Peek · Fort Payne, US
• Richard Ford · Mickleham, GB
• Chad Gentry · Fort Payne, US
• John Forrest Smith · Fort Payne, US
• Bobby Ray McKinney · Fort Payne, US
• John Wayne Bedwell · Southside, US
• Brian T. Parker · Signal Mountain, US
• Ken Beaver · Fort Payne, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 17, 2020
• Grant date: Oct 25, 2022
• Expiry date: Nov 18, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65F2003/0279
• WIPO field: Environmental technology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A multi-use garbage truck has an ability to not only to front load containers of garbage into a hopper in a refuse collection body, but also an ability to swap out the forks, if not arm connection assemblies, or even entire frame arms, to be replaced with one of a plurality of attachments which connect to at least one, if not both frame arms with attachments for various uses such as snow plow, leaf blower, street sweeper, bucket, grapple, etc. Furthermore, an ability to independently operate the left frame arm relative to the right frame arm can now be provided so that the left frame arm can utilize and perform one function and the right frame arm provide another or at least be independently operable from one another.